Norm Smith Medallist

sure the first few games we were quite leaky but that was the case at the end under Pochettino, but Jose managed to implement a free flowing on the counter style as well that got results despite poor defending.

By December through to early January he’d begun to stiffen the defence, and had a stretch of 7-8 games where there was less than 1 conceded on average, and we won games in this period. Then lost the two prolific scorers we have and poof there we go. A team snuffed out.

Can’t score and can’t keep clean sheets. Something like 73% of goals conceded under Jose have been individual errors or set pieces.

This is far less about style, than it is personnel. The board deserve some scorn for elements of that but not all of it. Pochettino is certainly culpable for a lot too. There was briefly a style that was working, key injuries have seen that dissipate. Wingers as CF’s isn’t going to win many games.

So the blatant trolling about Mourinho today is premature claptrap. This is mostly on the pre-existing squad, the board, and the previous manager. So today has been amusing, seeing uninformed views flow so freely

Brownlow Medallist

Im not going to totally absolve Mourinho of all blame at this stage as mistakes are being made but sensible people would acknowledge that things have gone to shit since Kane and Son got injured. Trolls probably won’t mention that fact though

Hall of Famer

Was Eric Dier perhaps defending his brother who was getting into a scuffle? In that scenario you can understand why he jumped the fence. Any other scenario and there could be significant issues for him.